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Extending Microsoft Power Apps with Power Apps Component Framework

By : Danish Naglekar
Book Image

Extending Microsoft Power Apps with Power Apps Component Framework

By: Danish Naglekar

Overview of this book

Power Apps Component Framework is used by professional developers to extend the capabilities of model-driven and canvas apps. Extending Microsoft Power Apps with Power Apps Component Framework will take you through the basic as well as advanced topics using practical examples. The book starts by helping you understand the fundamentals of the framework, its lifecycle, and the tools that you'll use to build code components using best practices and file management guidelines. You'll then learn how to extend Power Apps step by step and apply the principles and concepts covered in the book to build code components for field type attributes. The book covers different ways of debugging code components and guides you through the process of building code components for datasets. You'll also explore the functions and methods provided by the framework to enhance your controls using powerful sets of libraries and extensions. As you advance, you'll get to grips with creating and managing authentication profiles, discover different ways of deploying code components, and configure code components in model-driven and canvas apps. Finally, you'll learn some of the important features of the framework and learn modern web development practices. By the end of this Power Apps book, you'll be able to build, debug, enrich, and deploy code components confidently.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Fundamentals of the Power Apps Component Framework
6
Section 2: Building and Managing Code Components
12
Section 3: Enhancing Code Components and Your Development Experience

Chapter 2: Power Apps CLI

Now that we know a little about the history of the Power Apps component framework (PCF) and have our development environment set up, let’s take our next steps into the world of Power Apps – getting to know Power Apps CLI. This chapter will focus on getting you introduced to the basics of the Power Apps command-line interface and provide an overview of npm. In a step-by-step manner, we will understand the process for initializing your first PCF project using Power Apps CLI. By the end of this chapter, you will be ready to create code components for the chapters that come next.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • Overview of Power Apps CLI
  • Understanding npm
  • Initializing a PCF project using Power Apps CLI